Tag: addiction
Stark increase in opioid-related admissions, deaths in US ICUs
Since 2009, hospital intensive care units (ICUs) in the USA have witnessed a stark increase in opioid-related admissions and deaths. This is a finding...
US Veterans Affairs Opioid Safety Initiative shown to reduce opioid prescriptions
Fewer veterans received prescriptions for risky dosages of opioid painkillers after a USA-wide initiative took aim at reducing high doses and potentially dangerous drug...
AMA president issues opioid epidemic guidance US physicians
The president of the American Medical Association—Steven J Stack—has issued an open letter to US physicians about the country’s opioid epidemic.
Entitled, “Confronting a crisis:...
